On March 25, 1954, Audrey Hepburn won a 1953 Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a runaway European princess in "Roman Holiday." Three days later, on March 28, 1954, she won a Tony for Best Actress in a Play for "Ondine."
Emma Thompson is the only actress to receive Oscars in both categories. She won the 1992 Best Actress award for her performance in "Howards End." Three years later, she won the 1995 Adapted Screenplay award for "Sense and Sensibility," which was based on a Jane Austen novel.
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The first Oscars for acting were presented for 1927/1928 to Emil Jannings (Best Actor) and Janet Gaynor (Best Actress).
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The first Oscars was held in 1928.
Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards during her distinguished career -- all for Best Actress.
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No father and son have ever won acting Oscars. John Huston won an Oscar for direction, and he directed both his father Walter and his daughter Angelica in their Oscar-winning performances. Henry Fonda and his daughter Jane both won for acting. Jon Voight and his daughter Angelina Jolie both won for acting. PHC answer Carl and Rob Reiner
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The first Oscars for acting were presented for 1927/1928 to Emil Jannings (Best Actor) and Janet Gaynor (Best Actress).
Whereas it may not have been the first book on acting, Constantine Stanislavsky wrote the most influential set of books on acting: An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating the Role. Richard Boleslawiski's Acting: the First Six Lessons may have preceded it.
Oliver Stone's first of three Academy Awards was for writing the screenplay for "Midnight Express" (1978), adapted from the 1977 best seller by Billy Hayes. As a director, Stone won Oscars for "Platoon" (1986) and "Born On the Fourth of July" (1989).
The newest of the 28 Academy Awards categories is Best Animated Feature, which was first awarded for the year 2001. The categories with the newest names are Best Production Design, which was called Best Art Direction-Set Decoration before 2012, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, formerly Makeup.
If you are asking which First Ladies attended the Oscars this year, the answer is none. Michelle Obama was live via satellite from the White House. If you are asking whether other First Ladies have participated in the Oscars, the answer is yes: in 2002, Laura Bush participated in the Oscars. She too was not physically at the ceremonies, but she made a videotaped appearance.
At the first Academy Awards ceremony, twelve Oscars were distributed (compared to 24 at the last ceremony). In addition, there were also two honorary awards.Outstanding Picture, ProductionUnique and Artistic ProductionBest Director, Comedy PictureBest Director, Dramatic PictureBest ActorBest ActressBest Writing, Original StoryBest Writing, Adapted StoryBest CinematographyBest Art DirectionBest Engineering EffectsBest Writing, Title WritingHonorary Award - Charles Chaplin - "For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus".Warner Brothers Production - "For producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry".
The Oscars debuted in May of 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The original tickets were only $10!